Department of Sociology, York University, Downsview, Ontario, Canada.
J Youth Adolesc. 1983 Feb;12(1):43-53. doi: 10.1007/BF02092113.
Implicit in James Marcia's writings and in the many studies that have employed his measure of ego identity is the assumption that his four ego identity statuses are developmentally ordered along a continuum from "being identity diffused" to "achieving" an ego identity. In order to assess the validity of this assumption, hypotheses were generated and tested concerning the relationship between the above ordering and Erikson's writings regarding the role played in the process of identity formation by the following three variables: neuroticism, dogmatism, and a sense of purpose in life. If one assumes that Erikson's perspective is valid, then the results of this study fail to support Marcia's continuum assumption. While some of the identity statuses appear to classify persons in a manner consistent with Erikson's writings, not one instance of the postulated ordering of Marcia's four statuses is observed. It is concluded that Marcia's measure is not an adequate operationalization of Erikson's perspective on identity formation.
在詹姆斯·马西亚的著作和许多采用他的自我同一性度量标准的研究中，都隐含着这样一个假设，即他的四种自我同一性状态沿着从“同一性弥散”到“实现”自我同一性的连续体在发展上是有序的。为了评估这一假设的有效性，针对上述排序与埃里克森关于以下三个变量在身份形成过程中所扮演的角色的著作之间的关系，生成并检验了假设。如果假设埃里克森的观点是正确的，那么这项研究的结果就无法支持马西亚的连续体假设。虽然有些身份状态似乎以符合埃里克森著作的方式对人进行分类，但马西亚的四种状态假设的排序没有一个得到证实。因此得出结论，马西亚的度量标准不能充分体现埃里克森对身份形成的观点。
